Dear Sifu, Every time I watch your videos with my family, I have to translate to Cantonese and Vietnamese for them. My family has been inspired by your story and so on. Therefore, they are always asking me to translate even though I am really busy. :) Would you mind adding Chinese subtitle in your future videos? I think it would be helpful to the Chinese especially to those who is not really good at English but really want to learn from you. Your huge fan.
Great video Dan, I was just 6 days in Hong Kong, interesting city and I had great experiences there.I was always fascinated by The Chinese and the 2 different languages, Cantonese and Mandarin, I am very keen to pick up a few phrases. I worked with Chinese too, learned a couple of words, some swear words I don't use, LOL. Thank you for sharing, great video.
Hi Dan, I love your videos and content. I just started to learn Cantonese, as my husbands family is originally from HongKong :) One day I hope to have fluent conversations with them. Hope you have some good learning recommendations for me. Have a great day! Keep up doing this great job on "teaching" people!
We speak fluent French and Spanish and never even considered "learning/speaking" Chinese BUT.... now we see a way to BLEND/SELL our existing languages into Cultural Development and eventually business with the Chinese - Thanks Dan and Ladies for the great content.
Im a Caucasian learning Mandarin for a few years now. Definitely making progress as I study daily. It feels good to be reassured it is worth learning in a business sense. But it also helps that I enjoy listening to it even while I am sleeping.
i'm an ABC (american born cantonese-chinese) haha i would like to learn mandarin. I can't read the characters but can comprehend.Learn my cantonese phrases from TVB lol. I watch Taiwanese dramas over the years and it did help me a bit when I went to Taiwan this past August :-)
I'll be buying/attending a course on Cantonese (most of my friends speak it) very soon and then plan to learn Mandarin so thanks for uploading this video. Serves as a good starting point in my education .
Very interesting video. We lived in Temple City, CA for a few years and the Chinese there are always so nice to us. Our dentist is Chinese. He is the best. I don't know much about the culture. I love the idea of learning some Mandarin. You mentioned in some of the replies below to Google search the top Mandarin language learning software. Do you have one you recommend?
My son is learning mandarin language as well as the culture for his vocation. I tried to learn a little but it's very complex and my resource is not so good maybe. I try to speak Mandarin to local restaurant owners and they look at me like "wha?!!!" I confirmed they speak Mandarin. I need more personal lesson like my son. Maybe someday he can teach me when he is home.
Virtue-Signalling Man, thank you for the kind suggestion, I truly appreciate it! I have been using the Memrise app but I find that sometimes I'm getting my inflections wrong. I get very nervous to speak, but the people I talk to are very patient with me. In truth I don't have a great deal of time to devote to this but I am looking forward to when I will. It would be wonderful to be able to speak to my son in Mandarin! I bet he will aspire to learn Cantonese as well. When my son was little we loved watching Chinese films together. We never watched them in dubbed form because you lose so much that way! I remember my son would have a notebook and pencil to make notes so he could try to learn the language! Now that he is almost finished with his Mandarin language course, he watches the movies and sees the discrepancies in the translation! Our love for learning other cultures has always been a way for us to bond.
HI Dan. thank you for your efforts and your informative videos. My Wife is Thai and I'm American. I have a difficulty listening to the tones lick in the Chinese language. How would someone who grew up with lazy ears developed the skills to listen to tone and identify them as different meanings and words?
If you want to improve in any language definitely do a Google search for top Mandarin Chinese software that will help you correct your pronunciation and more
Even though I'm of Gaelic ancestry I never cared for European or even Western Society but ever since I was a little kid and watched my first Bruce Lee movie I fell in love with Asiatic societies especially Chinese
Totally Agreed (and in the same boat) Josh. There's something about Asiatic customs (particularly those found in chinese culture) that has a sense of honour about it that is severely lacking in western society. Particularly when focusing on familial structure, respect i.e "face", and personal accountability.
Sifu, I only just found your channel yesterday and am already a huge fan I really appreciate your combination of education(This video and the financial education ones also) and training videos (JKD and Wing Chun). Though I am only about to grade for Blue belt (Wing Chun) this Friday I feel your videos regarding the straight blast punch and effective use of biu sau eye strike combined with the Jut Tek are going to give me an edge for my random attacker gauntlet so I just wanted to say thank you very much for that and I look forward to your next video.
I want to learn Cantonese or Mandarin to eventually expand my coaching practice for people with anxiety. Would you lean more toward Cantonese or Mandarin if you had my goal?
Everytime I go to a chinese grocery store, I feel like they're planning to take over the world or something because I don't understand a single word of what they're saying to each other and they also talk too fast.
Yeah, I'd be curious about learning Mandarin... Is that the most dominant one? I can't remember from the video which one is the most common business language in China.
